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Lewis Carrol’s Nonsense Classics
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
and
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

fantastically dramatized by
Dean Collins
for the
Portland Rose Festival Silver Anniversary
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Portland Civic Theatre School of Drama
Played on the open air stage in the Festival Center at the following hours:
Thursday, June 8 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, June 9 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, June 10 10 a.m., 7 p.m.,
9 p.m. and Midnight
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
Alice........................
Alice’s Sister...............
White Rabbit.................
Tiger Lily......................
Rose.........................
Daisies......................
Red King.....................
Queen of Hearts..............
Knave of Hearts..............
Red Queen...................
Tweedledum.........................
Tweedledee...................
White Queen..................
Humpty Dumpty................
Father William...............
Father William’s Son.........
White King...................
Haigha, the Messenger........
Red Knight...................
Gryphon......................
Mock Turtle..................
Lion.........................
Unicorn......................
Fish Footman..........................
Frog Footman.................
Cook.........................
Duchess......................
Cheshire Cat.................
March Hare........ ................ ...
Mad Hatter...................
Dormouse.....................
King of Hearts...............
Sheep..*.....................
White Knight.................
Clerks of Court..............
Pawns, Cards, Etc............
-Pauline Isherwood
Barbara Burras, understudy
..Mona Farmer
Luella Williams, understudy
.Harvey Welch
Joseph Paquet, understudy
.Leila Vandervort
. Marian Johnson
.Virginia Renshaw, Bunny Hammond,
Beth Richards
..Anita Paulsen
.Barbara Jane Smith
..Oral Graham
.Harriet Hawkins
Janet Husted, understudy
..James Beard
..John Emmel
. Janet Baumhover
Betty Cooper, understudy
.Lois Matthews
.John Groves
. Phyllis Barker
Robert Scott
.Gladys Schmitt
James Huggins, understudy Gene Hahn Cecil Matson . William Fox
Herberta Kilbourne, understudy
.Gertrude Funkhouser
Beatrice Carstairs
.George Blakeslee
-T. Harris Bartlett
.Louise Cartlidge
Leslie Martin
.Frances Herrick
.Dion Routh
.Frank Nylander
Harriet Adams
Flora Bartmess, understudy
.Alan Wiesner
Aileen Smith
.Sam Herrick
Eugene Mather, understudy
.Donald Hensey and Jack Donohue .Mary Donovan, Constance Kirwin, Mar-
guerite Blair, Jane Stickney, Kathleen Sheasgreen, June Gabrielson, Beatrice Davidson, Jane Pipes, Jane Elton, Marjorie Roth, James Hart, Anita Paulsen, Rachel Holloway, and Mary Bergevin.
FOREWORD
When Lewis Carrol wrote “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass,” he created a dream which everybody has been dreaming over and over again for three generations and he gave the world one of the immortal classics of nonsense.
The Portland Civic Theater School of Drama in this production gives the services of its faculty and members to the Rose Festival, to recreate as nearly as possible in the Festival Center here, the spirit of gaiety and nonsense and dream unreality and “illogical wonderland logic” that Lewis Carrol wrote into these stories and that Tenniel drew into his illustrations of “Alice.”
But if you are to enjoy the dream, you must identify yourself with the dreamer.
So now before the play begins, everyone in the audience is invited to* toss aside sense and put on nonsense and, taking hold of the hand of Alice, the dream heroine, run with her in pursuit of the White Rabbit, through the looking glass and into the fantastic realms of Wonderland.
And this is the sequence of the episodes through which you shall go with Alice.
Episode 1.—Wherein Alice and her sister discuss “ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings,” white rabbits, and gryphons and mock turtles, cards and chessmen, and thereby lay the groundwork for the dream which begins when Alice falls asleep and the White Rabbit reappears.
Episode 2.—Wherein Alice pursues the unusual White Rabbit, around and about and through a hedge into a garden.
Episode 3.—Wherein the garden proves to be a Garden of Live Flowers. Alice talks with the flowers and learns of the Red King’s magic slumber, and also witnesses the deplorable theft of the tarts set out to cool by the Queen of Hearts.
Episode 4.—Wherein Alice learns the art of running fast enough to stay in the same place, and is instructed by the Red Queen as to the rules for becoming a Queen.
Episode 5.—Wherein Tweedledum and Tweedledee agree to have a battle and are only prevented by the astonishing hurricane created by the wings of the Monstrous Crow.
Episode 6.—Wherein Alice meets the White Queen and learns something of the reverse order that exists in Looking Glass Land. The White Queen is strangely transformed and Alice purchases an Egg, which proves to have curious properties.
Episode 7.—Wherein the Egg is found to be Humpty Dumpty, who tells Alice about the management of words, and, exemplifies for her the legend of the adroit Father William.
Episode 8.—Wherein the White King dines upon a hay sandwich, and is interrupted in his conversation by the arrival of the Red Knight.
Episode 9.—Wherein Alice is rescued by the White Knight, who explains his inventive talents and guides her to the protection of the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle.
Episode 10.—Wherein Alice learns the Mock Turtle’s story, participates in the Lobster Quadrille, which is interrupted by the battle of the Lion and the Unicorn, and sees these mythical creatures drummed out of town.
Episode 11.—Wherein Alice meets the Duchess, rescues the baby which turns out to be a pig, and converses with the disappearing Cheshire Cat.
Episode 12.—Wherein Alice is a guest at the mad teaparty with the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse.
Episode 13.—Wherein Alice is a guest at the Queen of Hearts’ croquet party, meets the Duchess in a moral mood, and has experience with the violent temper of the Queen.
Episode 14.—Wherein Alice reaches the eighth square, is duly crowned and instructed in royal etiquette by the Red and White Queens, who demand in payment—a lullaby.
Episode IS.—Wherein the trial of the Knave of Hearts is held, for the theft of the tarts, and Alice as chief witness suddenly points out to the other characters their true nature—with astonishing consequences which bring the play and the dream to their conclusion.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
Mrs. Charles A. Hart, head of the Civic Theater school, and general chairman; Mrs. Daisy Wilder, production chairman; Dean Collins, composer of script; Bess Whitcomb, director; James Beard, assistant director; Jack Dukehart, technical director; Harriet Hawkins, stage manager; Harvey Welch, assistant stage manager; Sally Hart, costumes; Mary Elizabeth Kable, properties; Tom Kneeland, lighting; Frances Kerr, masks.
Costumes executed by Edna C. Dawson
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For assistance in properties, equipment, and so forth. Portland Machinery Co., Bushong & Co., Ne Page McKenny Co., De Temple Co., Portland General Electric Co., Fox Broadway Theater, by Ted Gamble, Manager; Commerce Building, Plylock Co., Junior Symphony, Reed College Orchestra, J. K. Gill Company, Booklovers Circulating Library, Virginia D’Arcy, Meier & Frank Co., Benson Polytechnic School, John A. Roebling’s Sons & Co., and the French Antique Shop.